Additional Course Concepts Flashcards
Authority
The right to make decisions and to determine, adjudicate or settle issues and disputes in society.
Authority is best understood as the legitimate use of power.
The use of authority is important in the process of decision-making, initiating change, and maintaining continuity.
Micro - Parent
Meso - Principal
Macro - Prime Minister
Gender
The socially constructed differences between females and males.
Social life – including family life, roles, work, and other activities – is organized around the dimensions of this difference.
Gender also refers to the cultural ideals, identities and stereotypes of masculinity and femininity and the sexual division of labor in institutions and organizations.
Gender reflects the value society places on these social constructs, which are unique to a society.
Globalisation
The process of integration and sharing of goods, capital, labor, services, knowledge, leisure, sport, ideas and culture between countries.
This is evident in the emergence of global patterns of consumption and consumerism, the growth of transnational corporations, global sport, the spread of world tourism, and the growth of global military and economic systems.
Globalization is assisted by technologies and media integration, resulting in increasing consciousness of the world as a single place.
Power
The ability or capacity to influence or persuade others to a point of view or action to which they may not always agree.
Exercising power is important in initiating or preventing change.
Technologies
Refers to all the tools that we use to assist in our interactions in society.
It can lead to innovation and can initiate change in micro, meso, and macro operations in society.
The value placed on technology at any level of society influences the rate of change in society and culture.
They are constantly changing and adapting, and their impact varies over time.
Communication-based technologies facilitate the interaction between the micro, meso, and macro levels of society.
